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SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl
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How can an inventory
be foundationally structured to support the goals of service-oriented
computing?
Problem
Simply defining an
inventory scope does not guarantee that the services delivered for that
inventory will be designed to support the strategic goals of service-oriented
computing, especially when they will need to encapsulate legacy logic.
Solution
A layer of federated
services is established across the boundary of an inventory so that all parts
of the environment have uniform endpoint representation.
Application
A service inventory
blueprint comprised of a series of service candidates is defined for the
scope of a service inventory.
Impacts
Significant up-front
analysis may be required to define the service inventory blueprint,
proportional to the scope of the inventory.
Principles
Standardized Service
Contract, Service Abstraction
Architecture
Inventory
Status
Discontinued
Contributor
Thomas Erl
Contributor Notes
This was an early fundamental
design pattern. As the pattern catalog came together, it became evident that this
was actually a compound pattern comprised of a collection of other SOA design
patterns. You’ll therefore see this design pattern listed on the Chapter 9
page.
